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CIGAR PIEROER. No. 376,511. Patented Jan. 1'7, 1888.

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" UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

JAMES CARTER, OF EAST DULVVIOH, COUNTY OF SURREY, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE W. MABIE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

'CIGAR-PIERCER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 376,511, dated January 1'7. 1898.

Application filed August 8, 1887. Serial No. 246,399. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

' Be it known that I, JAMES 1). CARTER, a sub ect of the Crown of Great Britain and Ireland, residing in East Dulwich, in the county.

a small plug of tobacco from the tip of the cigar to form an axial hole therein.

The invention consists in the combination, with a tube having a flaring mouth to receive a cigar-tip, ofan inner tube having at the end a tubular cutter, and also having a spiral slot or groove in its length, a pin in the tube having the flaring mouth entering the spiral slot or groove and serving to turn the inner tube and its cutter when the tube having the flarlng mouth is slid inward over it, whereby the inner tube and its tubular cutter will be rotated, but held rigidlengthwise,when the tube with the flaring mouth and the cigar therein are slid inward over the inner tube and cutter.

The device as a whole may comprise inner and outer tubes connected at their one end and forming an annular space between them, and the tube having a flaring mouth sliding intermediately between the inner and outer tubes and in the annular space, an ejector permanently connected with the intermediate tube by a pin which passes through the spiral slot in the inner tube, and which serves to rotate the tubular cutter and the inner tube as the intermediate tube is pressedlongitudinall y into the annular'space to bring the cigar-tip in the flaring mouth against'the tubular cutter, and a spring which serves to return or project outward the intermediate tube after it M has been slid longitudinally to produce the op eration of the device.

The invention also consists in other combinations of parts, hereinabove referred to, and hereinafterdescribed, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an external view of a device, upon an enlarged scale, embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the device, the parts being at rest. Fig. 3 is asection similar to Fig. 2, but showing the intermediate tube and its flaring mouth as slid inward over the tubular cutter, so as to cause the rotary operation of said cutter upon the cigar-tip; and Fig. 4 is a partly longitudinal section of a cigar perforated or pierced by my instrument.

, Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures:

S designates a cigar which has in its end a hole or perforation, s, of suitable size, formed by removing a corresponding plug oftobacco from the cigar. It will be seen that a perforation of this kind in the end of a cigar is much more desirable than a hole formed by a sharppointed needle, which compacts the tobacco around the hole, as when the tobacco is not compacted around the hole the cigar will draw I with greater freedom. It is the purpose of my device to form a clear hole or perforation, s, by removing a plug of tobacco therefrom.

The device includes aflaring month, A, to receive the tipof the cigar, and which may be slid inward relatively to a tubular knife or cutter, B, which has a sharp edge. As here represented, the part of the device which carries the tubular cutter B consists of an. outer tube, O, and an inner tube, D, which are connected at their ends distant from the mouth, as indicated at d, and the tubular cutter Bis fixedin the end of the inner tube, D. The flaring mouth A is secured upon the end of the intermediate tube, E, which is received in the annular space 0 between the inner andouter tubes, 0 D. The inner tube, D, is approximately closed at its outer end, and has projecting from such closed end the tubular cutterB, and the tube E may be slid lengthwise in the annular space 0 by pressure applied to the mouth-piece A through a cigar inserted therein, and the intermediate tube, E, will thereby be moved inward against the force of a spring, 6, interposed between the flaring. mouth-piece A and the closed end of the inner tube, D. If the spring a is compressed by pressure exerted upon the mouth-piece, and

the mouth-piece is thereby slid inward over the cutter B, as shown in Fig. 3, the tube E and the mouth-piece A are returned to their normal or first position, as shown in Fig. 2, by the action of the spring c. I have also shown a pin or ejector, f, which springs from a head, f which fits the inner tube, D, with comparatlve snugness, and is connected by a pin,f", with the intermediate tube, E, and this pin f, which is fast in the intermediate tube, is received in the spiral slotf in the innertube, D. Consequently, it will be seen that when pressure is exerted upon the mouth-piece and intermediate tube, E, as shown in the drawings, the parts being in the position shown in Fig. 2, the intermediate tube, E, and the mouth-piece will be slid inward into the annular space 0, and will thereby bring the tip of the cigar in the mouth-piece against the tubular cutter B, and the rotary action of the cutter, which is caused by the inward passage of the pin f in the spiral slotf, will cause the cutter to enter the tip of the cigar and cut a plug of tobacco therefrom. The ejector and its head f, being, however, fixed to the intermediate tube, E, by the pin f move inward therewith relatively to the inner tube, D, while the cutter B is maintained at its normal projection. \Vhen, however, pressure is removed from the mouthpiece A, and after the parts have been brought to the position shown in Fig. 3 to pierce the cigar, the mouth-piece and intermediatetube, E, are at once returned by the action of the spring a to the position shown in Fig. 2, and as the pin or ejector f slides forward with the intermediate-tube, IE, it pushes from the tubular cutter B the plug of tobacco removed by it from the cigar. I have here represented at the end of the device a ring, 1), whereby it may be suspended from a watch-chain, if desired.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with the tube E, having a flaring mouth to receive a cigar-tip, of an inner tube having at the end a tubular cutter, and also having a spiral slot or groove, a pin in the tube E entering the spiral slot or groove and serving to turn the inner tube and its cutter when the tube E is slid inward over it, whereby the inner tube and its tubular eutter will be rotated and held rigid lengthwise when the tube E and its mouth-piece are slid inward over the inner tube and cutter, substantially as herein described.

2. The combination, with a tube having a flaring mouth-piece and a pin or ejector fixed in the tube, of a second tube having extending from it a tubular cutter surrounding the pin or ejector sliding within the first/named tube and connected therewith by a pin and spiral groove or slot, substantially as herein described.

3. The combination,with the inner and outer tubes, 0 D, the inner tube having a spiral slot or groove and the tubular cutter B projecting 5 from its end, of an intermediate tube, E, terminating in a flaring month, an ejector, f, connected with the intermediate tube by a pin, f which is received in thespiral slot or groove, and a spring, 0, substantially as herein described.

JAMES D. CARTER.

Witnesses:

GEO. J. B. FRANKLIN, ARTHUR R. SKERTEN. 

